Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.
 
Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here.)
Disk Cleanup: I run disk cleanup ($ leanmgr) on all the drives.
Registry: I run a registry cleaner (these days CCleaner itself) to clean the registries, after taking a backup of the current registry set.
Virus Scan: I run an entire PC scan, not just the scan across the “commonly infected areas”.
Defragment: Using …read more

There are a lot of utilities that can be used to clean a computer. These do something more than the usual “Disk Cleanup” ($ cleanmgr), are easy to use with custom features and are faster too. Cleaning up your computer can improve its performance and ensure greater privacy. For a while now, I have been using Piriform’s CCleaner. It is one of the most comprehensive utilities of its kind.

CCleaner’s primary feature is the Cleaner. First, it will analyze the system, fetch the files that it is going to delete from the recycle bin, browser caches, other application caches, and many …read more